AIR: Building Desktop Applications with AJAX - 2 days € 1.095
Description
AIRJ is a two day course designed to equip web developers who have experience with AJAX technologies with the skills needed to develop robust desktop applications using the Adobe Integrated Runtime. This course focuses on the toolset available to HTML and Javascript developers.
Prerequisite
Experience building HTML web applications with CSS and custom-written Javascript. Familiarity with AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML) techniques will enhance your learning the class.
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Course outline
Introducing the course
Introducing Mastery Learning
Understanding the course format
Reviewing the course prerequisites
Reviewing the course outline
Introducing the Adobe Integrated Runtime
Exploring the AIR development Toolset
Understanding the AIR SDK
Looking at Dreamweaver
Reviewing the AIR tools for Dreamweaver
Creating AIR Sites
Exporting AIR Applications
Walkthrough: Review the course application
Getting started with AIR
Creating your first AIR application
Creating an AIR project
Walkthrough: Create your first AIR application
Creating an AIR application in Dreamweaver
Creating a Site
Creating a new AIR application in Dreamweaver
Launching Your AIR application in Dreamweaver
Walkthrough: Create an AIR application with Dreamweaver
Packaging and deploying applications
Using the Air Application Settings Wizard
Selecting application content
Code-signing an application
Exporting an application
Installing an application
Walkthrough: Export and install application
Understanding the contents of the .air file
Exploring the AIR file format
Understanding the application descriptor
Understanding the application display attributes
Walkthrough: Examine the AIR package
Learning AIR Fundamentals
Understanding the application container
Functionality of AIR
Accessing AIR Features from Javascript
Getting Debugging Information
Extending the Runtime with ActionScript
Walkthrough: Create an AIR application with Javascript
Getting help and other resources
Using the File System
Using the File class
Introducing the file class
Accessing common directories
Allowing user to specify files or directories
Walkthrough: Browsing the file system with the File class
Interacting with the file system
Referencing a file or directory
Creating directories
Moving and copying file system objects
Removing file system objects
Walkthrough: Copy, move and delete file objects
Using file streams
Reading and Writing Files
Walkthrough: Read and write a file
Working with files asynchronously
Compare synchronous and asynchronous methods
Walkthrough: Read a file asynchronously
Creating Native Windows
Exploring the types of windows
Customizing properties of the window
Walkthrough using window.open()
Using the NativeWindow class
Adding content to a window
Walkthrough: Create a native window
Manipulating windows
Resizing a window
Moving a window
Walkthrough: Resize and move a window
Using window events
Using addEventListener()
Identifying the window events
Walkthrough: Listen for window event
Lab 1
Persisting Application Data
Using an embedded SQL databases
Understanding the database file
Opening a database
Creating a database
Walkthrough: Create a new database
Using SQL statements
Managing the database
Managing the data
Using best practices with embedded databases
Walkthrough: Update database and records
Working with data types
Using Date data type
Using XML data type
Using BLOB data type
Walkthrough: Use date/time data
Using the clipboard
Moving data with copy and paste
Understanding the Clipboard
Using the generalClipboard
Getting data from the clipboard
Writing data to the clipboard
Walkthrough: Moving data with copy and paste
Using drag-and-drop
Exploring the drag and drop stages
Dragging with the clipboard
Walkthrough: Drag an image into the application
Connecting Applications
Communicating between applications
Using LocalConnection
Walkthrough: Connect to another AIR application
Detecing network availability
Monitoring network state changes
Detecting HTTP connectivity
Detecting Socket connectivity
Walkthrough: Using network detection
Connecting to web applications using URLRequest
Requesting a URL via HTTP
Using the URLRequest class
Using the URLVariables class
Using the URLoader class
Walkthrough: Using the URLRequest Object
Understanding AIR Security
Considering AIR security
Learning about security sandboxes
Understanding the domain considerations
Understanding the need for Security Sandboxes
Implementing Security Sandboxes
Implementing the sandbox bridge
Walkthrough: Create a security sandbox
Understanding application updates
Walkthrough: Update an application
Customizing Application Deployment
Setting the application's desktop icon
Using application icons
Walkthrough: Add icon to application
Using system tray icons
Walkthrough: Adding a system tray icon
Summary and Review
Lab 2
